Rambles in the far north
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- [1884?]
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- Paisley [Scotland] : A. Gardner
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266 p. ; 20 cm
Description and folklore of the Orkney Islands
Description and folklore of the Orkney Islands
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Subject: Rambles in the Far North
Subject: Rambles in the Far North
Novelists, poets, and literary travellers are all fond of writing about the picturesque islands of the North Sea, the nearest of which is separated from the Scottish mainland by a rough sea-passage, always disturbed and stormy enough to deter the exploratory propensities of any excursionist liable to that most prosaic of maladies—sea-sickness. Nevertheless, despite the number of works which treat of the Orkneys, there remains still a good deal to be said about their scenery and the inhabitants. The author of this series of “Rambling Sketches” gives an exhaustive and interesting description of Orcadian history—ancient and modern—of the scenery by land and by sea, and of the people, as they were and as they are. During two summer trips to “the Far North,” he visited many localities familiar by name to readers of “ The Pirate ” and to students of the old Norse Sagas, made himself acquainted with every extant tradition, shot sea-birds, hunted seals, talked to fishermen about their work and to farmers about their crops, deciphered quaint epitaphs in old churchyards, and engaged in antiquarian researches. The most entertaining chapters are those relating to the romantic folk-lore of the islands, the even now half-accredited superstitions of old. The stories of the vagaries of the “trows,” or fairies, and of the enchanted “selchies,” or seals, are amusing and well told, being free from stiffness and pedantry of style. With discrimination, the writer has wisely constituted each “Sketch” complete in itself, so that, after first perusal, ready reference may be made to any particular passage, a very desirable result when the volume comes to be, as is likely, employed as a sort of guide-book.
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